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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Washington Allston
Born: November 5, 1779
Died: July 9, 1843 (aged 63)
Bio: Washington Allston was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting.
Known for:
- Lectures on Art, and Poems (1841)
- Lectures on Art--poems